The Ciudad de Reus

(orally). I think I will take the last question first. If a vessel should be rescued, and subsequently totally destroyed, the fact that there was no vessel left, of itself, would not be the only consideration in determining what was salvage. The present-case involves, not one claim of salvage, but at least three separate situations^ perhaps divided among five boats. The claim for salvage in reference to the occurrence over by Staten Island cannot be viewed by what happened after Capt. Roche took charge and the vessel came to Brooklyn. Nor can the services that are claimed to have been…